YOSHIKUNI SUGIYAMA IS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF NIPPON TV

Nippon TV has promoted Yoshikuni Sugiyama, currently Representative Director and Operating Officer of Nippon TV, to President and Senior Executive Operating officer of Nippon TV. Sugiyama replaces Yoshinobu Kosugi who will be taking the new position of Vice Chairman and Senior Executive Operating Officer of Nippon TV. President Sugiyama is set to report to Vice Chairman and Senior Executive Operating Officer Yoshinobu Kosugi and Chairman and CEO Yoshio Okubo.

Keiichi Sawa, currently Operating Officer responsible for Nippon TV’s Global Business Development, is responsible for the recent significnt growth in sales the company has seen. Sawa has now been promoted to Board Director and Operating Officer. Board Director Sawa will be responsible for Business Development and Real Estate. He will report to President Sugiyama. All the positions became effective June 29.

Representing the company's growth, Nippon TV’s global hit scripted format "Mother" was recently ranked #1 in the “Top 10 Traveling Asian Scripted Formats”, and Nippon TV also ranked for the first time as the main distributor of "AsPharaoh!," "Old Enough!" and other unscripted formats led to this position. The data was provided by K7 Media in May 2021.